NASRIN YAVARI "Tree of Life"

40 x 30 inches

Acrylic on canvas

Framed 46 x 36 inches

2024

In my paintings, I have likened humans to trees whose roots pass through the darkness of human history, touching upon pains and hopes, fears and challenges, powers and weaknesses spanning thousands of years, feeling and storing them within the genes like millions of other trees (humans) across the globe.

This human history, rich with pains and hardships, hopes and achievements, prosperity and ruins, wars and peace, the beauty of arts and the bitterness of diseases, calamities and invasions, receives and senses all these informations from millions of other trees (humans) across the globe and stores them in its genes.

All this information is transferred to the branches like nutrients to the soil and transforms them into leaves, flowers, and fruits with connections to sunlight, nature, God, to greenery, knowledge, wisdom, and creation of life anew.

We humans are like thousand-year-old trees alive on Earth, with the power of choice to become green or fertile, to create or destroy, and to burn. This is the only difference between us and all other creatures that in this historical moment, we learn from the power of choice and thinking, to learn from history and to choose between peace and war, friendship and enmity. We must learn from history and not strike the axe to our roots, not set fire to the forest, and not destroy our future generations. We must reach the peaceful nature of a tree, to the roots of friendship, to the fertility of branches, and to faith in the presence of light, knowledge, and God. Choose a world full of peace and friendship and branches and faith for all nature, animals, earth, and future generations and bring peace and happiness and true love.